"Content Finder" - Please be careful

[bobbygunz]

I'm so completely on the same page as the original poster. If the content finder ultimately behaves like a beefed up FFXI search, it'll be fantastic. If it just groups people without you having to invite them yourself... a LOT is lost.

Not just in the case of griefers.

In FFXI, the /sea command was pretty advanced. You could search for people in the 50-54 range with a speicific job. say 5 show up seeking parties, and lets assume they all want to do whatever you're recruiting for.

Being able to choose among those people to invite means you can invite people you've partied with before. So while the ultimate goal might be to get a party together, the real goal is to get a group of people to have fun with. Given the choice between someone you've partied with before and a stranger (or someone you KNOW is terrible/an ass), I think most people would pick the one they've met.

And the strangers shouldn't be worse off for it. If the content finder works well, then there'll be other people wanting to do the same content, and they'll manage to hook up for it.

The auto-party in FFXI was never used. There are reasons for that besides the fact it didn't work well mechanically.

Let's just hope that they implement the content finder as badly in FFXIV as they did the autoparty in FFXI.

[ThePatriarch]

Let's just hope that they implement the content finder as badly in FFXIV as they did the autoparty in FFXI.